The phrase "interpreter service" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a service that provides interpretation for communication between speakers of different languages.
Example: "The hospital offers interpreter service to assist patients who do not speak English."
Alternatives: "translation service" or "interpretation service".
However state funding to the state's only Aboriginal interpreter service, Kimberley Interpreting Service, was cut last year.
Thus, our findings indicate the need for development at the organizational levels of multilingual elderly healthcare in order to provide interpreting, to give access a professional interpreter service and not only rely on bilingual healthcare staff and family members as interpreters.
The first 46 women (baseline cohort) received routine services, including ad-hoc interpretation or no interpretation; the second 52 women (intervention cohort) used a dual-headset telephonic interpreter service.
Its staff will be fluent in Spanish; an interpreter service line can handle 200 other languages.
We have an interpreter service that allows us to communicate with patients who speak other languages.
"It was beyond wonderful," said Ms. Jones, a dispatcher for the interpreter service at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Linda Haffner, director of interpreter services at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics, said face-to-face interpretation was necessary in certain situations.
Much can be learned from the literature on interpreting in mental health in high-income countries, but interpreter services are expensive, and the models of wealthier countries cannot be imported.
Health services in wealthier countries offer a range of interpreter services to service users from linguistically diverse backgrounds, and mental health interpreting is recognised as an important component of appropriate and accessible care (3).
Interpreter services, language concordance, and health care quality.
President Bill Clinton issued an executive order in August 2000 mandating that physicians who receive Medicaid and Medicare funds provide interpreter services for patients who do not speak English.
